1. trans. To state (a proposition, principle, opinion) in definite terms; = ENUNCIATE.
1805. Foster, Ess., IV. iii. 152. Whatever sentences will justly enounce them.
1837–8. Sir W. Hamilton, Logic, xv. (1866), I. 281. The Antecedent comprises the two propositions, the one of which enounces the general rule.
1851. Sir F. Palgrave, Norm. & Eng., I. 199. The proposition is incontestable, yet incompletely enounced.
1878. Dowden, Stud. Lit., 144. Wordsworth’s theory of poetic diction was perhaps not enounced with perfect clearness.
2. To state publicly; to proclaim.
1807. T. Thomson, Chem., II. 222. Landriani … enounced the alteration of lime-water by it [carbonic acid gas] as a proof of his opinion.
1829. Southey, Sir T. More, II. 233. [To] enounce without disguise the most revolutionary sentiments.
1834. Fraser’s Mag., X. 722. Plunkett enounced … the following to be his deliberate sentiments.
3. To utter, pronounce (words, etc.); cf. ENUNCIATION.
1829. Southey, All for Love, IX. At his command the Chorister Enounced the Prophet’s song.
1852. A. M. Bell, Elocut. Man. (1859), 58. The student should be able to enounce these [sounds] independently.
1857. C. Brontë, Professor, I. xiv. 235. I never before or since heard language enounced with such steam-engine haste.
